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Good evening all

long ish time lurker so having 4 6 pots in the household i thought i would put this here too for others to see

we have a 4Motion 2001

An 04 mk4 R32

An 04 Audi 3.2 Quatro DSG

and last but not least a FWD MK4 2001 with a custom built VF charged 3.2 BHE lump

charger got sold a while back and left me with some plans

Back in October last year i picked up the 4MO from ebay for a tidy sum and so the story goes

Everybody please meet RED

He is a 2002 V6 4MOTION 5 door in some colour red lol

i took charge of him about 4-5 months ago when the plan hatched [snack]

He was in a bit of a sorry state with a set of buckled Kahn wheels and odd size tires along with a bit of a ding in the rear 1/4

And a rather sweet running 2.8 but with what i suspect to be a broken 3rd gear selector fork

Fast forward a few months of SLOOOOOOOW progress due to our little girl being born and i am left with this....

Quite an amazing way to wash a car LOL

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Only way to wash a car if you ask me and with an 80 degree Hot steam washer and bags of TFR to remove the many years of crap from the bay and the underside [:D]

As the light was fading i left him hanging by the scruff and can continue the steam bath tomorrow

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Well a bit more progress today [H]

Got all his doors off as i have no use for them due to having 4 NEW spanking doors to fit, the others had various dings and dents from over the years and want PERFECT ones to start with

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What a BITCH the bolts are to undo that hold the hinges on so ended up using a nice sharp chisel and with a swift smack with a lump hammer to shock them loose

Was thinking to replace them with some nice polished stainless 13mm ones to make it better to undo them in the future [in-love]

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Boot lid is stripped and ready to remove as that is also being replaced for a new one as it had a few spots of rust on it and we all know it is like cancer and will ony be a matter of time before it comes back

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Also got a new OEM windscreen coming and picked up a new OEM rear screen from VW ready to go on when it is painted

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Engine bay is all nice and clean and free of any hard and dried wax oil and 10 years of crud

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Wings and door shuts have had all the grommets removed and flatted down by hand (as is the rest of the car)

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Got ALL the looms stripped out the car and wound back up to the dash, both boot looms are also out the car

spent a few hours flatting down the inside ready for primer and then later some colour [6]

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Also going to order ALL new engine bay stickers, and all the data tags for the car so it will look PERFECT when it is done [:$]

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Still PLENTY of flatting to do before the gun can be loaded and need to order all the sound deadening pads to go on the wheel arches

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A few bits turned up today from Germany

4X NEW rear tie arms, full set of sub frame bolts and also a full set of rear trailing arm bushes

picked them up on good old German gay bay for a STUNNING sum of....................................................................... 25 EURO [lol-lol]

priced all the bits up and there is roughly £450 if bought from a dealer [:o]

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Ideal for building some adjustable arms me thinks

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